Today out here in the redwoods we have Keith colored dollar Robin doll of
glow welcome to out here in the redwoods I'm Robin Donald and we're having
a little different format today and last time I was on the show I was interviewed
by Nico and I was a wonderful interview but today I'm here with Keith cock
a guy who needs no introduction really he's been in front of you
a few times already how you doing fun Robin Michelle Well I'm
a little nervous but I'm game to go I'm going to be nervous about OK. Today we're
going to talk about some issues that are really. Important for everybody in the
whole country and that includes of course appear in Humboldt County Keith I know
that you are prepared and really want to let us know about some of the just the
G.O.P.
The Republican tax plans right the biggest thing I had to say about the G.O.P.
Tax plan is that it's false. They have
a trickle down theory that just doesn't work it didn't work with Reagan in the
eighty's and it's not going to work with. The Congress in the two
thousands in fact twenty five million families would see their
taxes go up on the average of
a thousand dollars Now the average tax break given to
millionaires would be at least one hundred sixty thousand. This is their tax plan
that they're writing right now for the November ballot as this plan is different
than what they call the Bush tax cuts to the well it is an extension of the books
facts cuts but it also allows them to tax the middle class families that don't make
two hundred fifty thousand dollars or more more money to to charge. To
take out of their taxes and no less food on the table whatever but
they think that if they let these millionaires or quarter millionaires have these
tax breaks that the money will trickle down to the middle class and then on top of
that the idiocracy of it is if it does go to the middle class the
government's going to take it away from them anyway into this so it's not even
feasible or economic to even do you know you mention that the tax break they're
planning the tax plan that the G.O.P.
Is planning will affect if you have two hundred fifty thousand dollars or less
that's going to apply to you it's going to fly you Keith isn't that that's the
Occupy Wall Street movement had a slogan had
a motto it was we are the ninety nine percent right and they also use that term the
fifty thousand dollar scallop she had
a yelling as if you're earning below that which of course has a lot of people
a lot of people over there with all that even close to
a working family to the husband and wife working make less than a quarter of
a million. Yeah they they are very very specific about
that and they use that two hundred fifty thousand dollars ceiling and I I just
think that it's sad but there is no trickle down effect when a millionaire gets
a tax break. Well they call it the job creators and yet the job
there are no jobs and in fact right here that shows and then they want to plain
they want to blame President Obama he said he hasn't done any job until you and I
discussed this before the show up Mitch McConnell and the and the Senate and the
House representative to. Said they did everything they can to make
a barrack Obama one term president and P.
To impede any progress he would do and they're winning they're doing it you know
they're voting down his jobs bill and so forth and so on.
There anything he's brought up I mean Obamacare had to go to the Supreme Court it
was passed and it had to go to the Supreme Court what law do you know done by
a president ever been to challenge the bill passed yet the
people the House Representatives said it's wrong it has to go to the Supreme Court
for ruling because they lost I've never heard that in history of the United States
until now well except for the first Bush election where he was going to lose in
Florida so they had to cry out to the Supreme Court let's help let's get let's get
that that line straight who was Bush's campaign secretary.
The secretary of state of Florida who controls the vote and validates the vote in
every state that was. She was
a Republican right and she was his campaign manager so therefore she had all the
tools of course she won she says whatever the vote is and she signed it. Now prove
are wrong as hard and right now the Republicans I don't say they got
a lot smarter but with the help of that corporate funded group ALEC they have been
passing in
a number of states these water rights. Barrier is really saying things that the but
yes you have to have
a photo ID Now what photo ID would be good if you were going to school and you have
a photo ID for college you can't use that right and you're
a gun owner and you have some kind of gun permit Yeah and you can't that's the
demographics are pretty clear if you're going to college it's like yeah and you may
think that's funny it's not saying Democrats are smarter than Republicans although
from Iraq right now on the the voter suppression and and that's
a big issue and. On my Facebook page a sense
a friend sent it to me. There's a man in a wheelchair scaring
a Veterans of America photo I.D.
Card they said that was no good because it doesn't have
a state that it's covered in the United States so we are disrespecting our
military. People that have gone to war Vietnam
Iraq one Iraq two whatever and if they're old now and
a lot of them are. Korean War Even Vietnam War and they just have their
V.A. ID because that's the one they use of most and there are probably
a lot of medical stuff in the transports and so forth the V.A.
Takes care of it and they're saying that that's not
a good enough photo ID that shows I was
a veteran of and did my time in service for this country well the Republicans knew
that and they were like Yeah let's put that on there as
a non valid ID and just like you said college students maybe carry
a driver's license over another state as they go home for three months and come
back and now they're saying that
a student ID is no good I mean so all these I really colleges that these
gentlemen went to that ID is not respected in Massachusetts and Pennsylvania let's
say the university upin all these Ivy League schools because these kids actually
live in California Hawaii somewhere three months out of the year and don't feel
like they need to change their driver's license and I agree with the kid but I
think
a lot of the the states that are. Putting the working these roads Richardson has
voted restrictions are I think they're more in the south and then the no
interaction is there or not it's Ohio Pennsylvania Florida Alabama
Georgia I don't think Louisiana has gotten that crazy yet don't don't get me wrong
I'm not accurate on that but I do know it in Pennsylvania I do know it's in Ohio I
do know it's in Massachusetts and I do know it's in Florida. It might even be in
South Carolina but those are Republican heavy States and that's why if they don't
get the vote if they don't get the popular vote the electoral vote will have to go
the other way. Because regardless of who votes for. President you and
I we only count to make our Aleck Tauriel vote count. The
electorate Alexa president the electoral college yet the Electoral College and that
Electoral College the history of that it was I forget the exact phrase but it was
a dastardly compromise with the slave owning states and the right to give them
a little more power and the first four or five presidents of the United States came
from southern slave owning states right it really needs to be redone be redone it
doesn't need to be
a lot of this needs to be revamped California lucky though we don't have to have
a photo ID In fact you can go and just sign your name now there was something if
there was somebody that beat you to it and tried to fraud you yeah you show photo
I.D.
But you're right when the California were lucky and the voter suppression tactics
won't work they did work and they did work in Arizona I know that for
a fact. One of the things speaking about our lovely Congressman and House of
Representatives is
a little known fact. They are getting ready to take their five week paid vacation
paid by who us the taxpayers. True enough Donald you and I both believe they were
on vacation and he was it worth doing what they could not voting and whatever so
the bills don't get passed but yesterday yesterday in American history was
a very. Big moment women are now Birth control is taking care of
rights for abortion so forth and so on well as is the rest of the the Congress goes
the G.O.P. Is meeting behind closed doors and they're working on
a bill to prevent rape and incest victims from getting an abortion
I think that that's just totally absurd I think if they're working on
a bill to prevent that if
a woman was raped or incest really raped and sprayed it doesn't want the baby
because she you know something might happen to it who is it for the Republican
Congress like Republican House of Representatives to say this woman has no right to
do that. That I mean that's what I call that an abomination and it should be
a criminal you know the women are not doing that well in the United States now
general they're still making seventy seven cents to the dollar for a job that
a man makes and. I don't know what happened with the
relationship with the Catholic bishops that allowed them even though they get
federal funding let's say but they can still opt out of providing. Abortion
a preventative technology as well you know for so you know if. It's yours.
As much as we are trying to live in the new millennium there's
a lot of old very old relations all that are trying to come from Calgary Jim Crow
days Woman Suffrage you know it's like you know they complain about the
Supreme Court or the Republicans love to bring up the Supreme Court. Let's look at
the abortion it wasn't a law it was made a Supreme Court ruling to be
a law Roe versus Wade so that's lapping the Supreme Court and face tell you now we
don't care what you said we're writing
a new bill well the Supreme Court is not always the sacrosanct tentacle of
arbitrary justice and United Way Well it isn't and which. I was going to just segue
for a moment there into saying it that's why it's important to have
a president who's going to stand up for the people because the president appoints
a Supreme Court members that is sure. I agree with that totally I mean the
most ridiculous thing I've read recently about the Supreme Court was of course
lovely judge Anthony's Ilia where he said that handguns should be carried
and what we deem a handgun is not a cannon but yet
a handheld rocket launcher that can take down
a plane and has taken down planes in history. A Pan Am flight coming out of
Scotland was
a handheld guys terrorists that shot down so forth and so on. That's
considered a handheld a firearm so you're telling me I can go get
a handheld rocket launcher and consider it
a firearm and go shoot in any plane I want to bring down I mean this man has really
he needs to leave the band she's really way out there with stuff that he's trying
to interpret for
a moment I like to swing back to the taxes and I know that Romney Milton Mitt
Romney has a tax plan he has
a tax plan what do you have to say about that the tax plan that he
presented shows that.
People again making the Occupy Wall Street the quarter of
a million dollars You don't get
a tax breaks and your tax or is are increased up to two thousand dollars on an
average if you don't make a quarter of
a million dollars or more now the more you make the bigger tax breaks you've got
where there are not one hundred sixty thousand but more like eight hundred nine
fifty to. Be tax breaks automatically not
earned or shoulder in your forms but these are automatic tax breaks that the Mitt
Romney plan is coming up with let's look at this as a B.
a Call a very regressive to her dad it's if it's
a very it makes people in America that are working pay more then their fair share
so the people that make the money. I don't have to pay their fair share and
just on like I said on Romney's tax thing let's look at one more thing it's his
father Governor George Romney that started in the sixty's saying that rip
people needed to see their who their electing stacks reports especially if they
went from the private sector to the public and gee it's funny that his son his
oldest son wants to throw this down the wayside Well there is no over there
requirement at the the federal requirement is only for
a couple of tax returns or it's not very many actually it is it's for at least five
years that's why he said I'm only going to show you two in the rest of those years
you want so about July How do you get away with that just at the level of security
you're a redhead
a basic requirement you can't run for president. You know. That would be the
common sense thing but we're talking about the Republican Party here or as I like
to call them the Republican side overnights friend of mine named on that and I'm
sticking with it. And no they are very ill know some of them even
has said look you've got to show your tax returns and he's telling even his own
party now I'm not going to do it so
a what is the Heidi except for his money what is he really hiding did he pay or did
he win file those years and see what really is going to
happen when he becomes should and that's what the show is about that he really
should become president. A lot of people could disagree with me that's America's
choice but don't don't really think you those of you that don't make a quarter of
a million or more and that's
a whole lot more Americans than do well you know Romney's. History
with Bain Capital and with downsizing and then outsourcing sending jobs.
Which were U.S.
Jobs abroad me explain used to be. Government did things like that with NAFTA when
Bill Clinton came in inside the North American Free Trade Agreement agreement
a lot of manufacturing blue collar jobs went to Mexico Mexico the killer Doris' or
they went places and then that was well even before that that was before and after
that that instead it up they started going to other countries in the late seventies
one nine hundred seventy S.
And Ronald Reagan ran for president and you may remember the phrase they came up he
was capturing the vote of the angry white man right that was there have been your
blue collar workers who had been in good paying union jobs and factory workers
losing the work and being angry about it and wondering what was going on and Reagan
very cleverly was basically saying it was the people on welfare the Cadillac Queens
with and he you know very coded racism to track the angry white male and he was
successful those angry white male and other. You know the economy is going through
cycles but it's really very bad and they're still holding some allegiance to the
Republican Party Yeah and that's what I really don't understand how many times do
you have to get stepped on downtrodden spit in your face throw mud at. And
this and then still go well it's going to change and then when you do the history
of it or you look up who didn't allow the bill it's
a Republican House of Representative and
a Republican senator that did well one thing I do want to say on the show today is
there was
a big misconception to our own Representative Mike Thompson and somebody needs to
apologize to him because he did not vote for those Bush tax cuts he
voted that they end so the more the unemployed and so forth of Humboldt County
would not get taxed more but there was
a big Internet thing the set Oh Mike Thompson was one of the Democrats
a turncoat and he was and he stood by this county's population
and decided that hey you know what these tax cuts aren't helping my constituents
I'm not well informed and I have to respect him for that. That's
a big Internet thing on it today August second that they really made
a mistake though and I know one group called Move On dot org is apologizing I don't
know if the others are but they need to because Mike Thompson did vote against the
book Bush extensions. Getting back to
Romney there are three things in this so recently that he has done
he's insulted our oldest and longest ally the Brits with his Olympic
comments. He's then gone over to Israel
and compared the Palestinians to that is Israelis like
they had the same equal opportunities until recent years to. Flourish
make money capitalism they didn't they were military takeover state they let them
have food and that was it it's only until that Israel. I don't
want to see the Prime Minister's name wrong but until he allowed Palestine to be
a state. Of Palestine is not
a state right now and there have been Right now there is this boycott that embargo
of goods and medicine yeah getting to now that the bank. The
I have opinionated about about the Palestinian Israeli situation and I feel that
it's been since almost one hundred forty nine certainly since my home because they
haven't spent the. Palestinians have been dispossessed and well you know
the whole West Bank and Gaza really is like it is
a big ghetto in terms of people but it there there's just lack of opportunity in
jobs and and that's
a very hard but and that's what Mitt Romney was comparing it making it sound like
that it was an equal footing that the Israelis and the Palestinians had and even
Israel economists for like what are you talking about you know no they're
subjugated basically to us and how can you compare their income versus orange. We
give them what we want they don't make it they don't we give them I talked about
the Palestinians Yeah there is realize you give the Palestinians and them in the
United States also gives. Billions of dollars while we are at Israel's defense
right we are we are Israel's defense and Egypt is the second largest recipient of
U.S.
Aid in the Middle East and all this time we've had the Arab spring and we've had
the Egyptians using social networking writing of entire square we still all that
time giving the military the military money so.
All the money that the U.S.
Government gives to support other countries who may not may not be considered very
democratic is money that we don't have here to put into programs for
our own poor in poverty and that's true and one of the thing how the county I just
excuse me I'm
a humble kind of think has rated in California as fifty eight counties and in terms
of the number of people in poverty we're fifty six I mean it means we're low. We're
very low we have like nineteen percent of our population is in poverty here and I
believe that because there is the mills of close and there are no real jobs here.
Well there is
a real source of income and they don't want to say it but without marijuana growth
. Humble County. On that level but the the issue of jobs
here people might hear about Mitt Romney and being
a Raider yes maybe they were programmed corporator we did have our own experience
here with Charles Hurwitz and Max Sam They borrowed junk bonds on Wall Street came
up here did
a. Leveraged or unhappy by you know they took it over took
over
a Pacific Lumber and just clear cut all of the old growth in order to pay off his
bonds and then the town of Scotia that used to own it now they saw that they went
in and got the pension funds they did
a lot of damage and that's really the type of things that Bain Capital actually
does. With the man and we said this before the show.
Jay Leno said it and I think it's really great that America really need to
understand this do you know why there's no vice presidential candidate running
along Mitt I mean come on that's back when Sarah Palin says Hey John McCain's
a way better candidate than you there's no way I'm going to sign off on your credit
John McCain said that that Sarah Palin was
a better. Mom you know was take you know Vice President and the second part about
that that I enjoy is exactly what Jay Leno said people
understand this do you know why he doesn't have
a vice presidential candidate because he has to hire an American and he only
outsources I think so so that's that's another thing.
Well it's you know it's the comedians that make us laugh at which there were two or
two off we're told to cry but I saw a poster of Jon Stewart and and
a cobra So yeah the sad thing is that we are the best news release in America Yes I
saw that too and that's true just one of another thing that he did real quick
before we have to get off the air is John Stewart showed the London mayor talking
about it and he says you know of London as
a financial bustling metropolitan A We're still holding in the Olympics it's not in
the middle of nowhere John Stewart put up the four corner states and said wrong
Mayor we are in the north east corner of nowhere and that's where the Salt Lake
City Olympics were that's right that's right. All I really would like to close with
is the fact that people there are two things you have to get out there and vote and
those of you that really think of believing that Romney's going to do
a better job than Obama or do more for you than Obama that's dead wrong true
enough it starts with our House of Representatives and we need to get those
Republicans out but Mitt Romney is
a racist
a sexist he doesn't believe women should have the power of. A. Greedy
man period. To me he's
a straight talker I mean because he keeps saying what Obama didn't do well Obama
had help and not doing that because the Republican Congress kept shooting
everything he brought to the table down and when you people realize that. Then
let's start with the problem lies it doesn't lie in our president it lives in our
like the House of Representatives and we have to start there but yet have
a president like you said that supports the American people so when things get to
the Supreme Court it's not looked at one way or the other it's looked at the
fairness for more people now
a bomber was talking in his run up for the election that he said you know you have
to hold me accountable you have to put the pressure on me and wanted to get things
done and I think we were all those who voted for him were kind of euphoric and
thinking you know the first black president and compared to George W.
Bush. An intelligent person. But that is I think
a weakness of our system is that what I call the civil society which is the
community of all of us we get agitated and excited every four years and
we get involved and we vote but the rest of the time we sort of sit back and that's
I think that time is changed now I agree with that and with that
I guess we'll talk again hopefully soon Yes Q Very.
Informative and pleasurable so good mine To All right thank you thank you very much
OK well this is out here in the redwoods and I hope you've been enjoying
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